Project Iced Blood - Mayhems/Primochill Sponsored. COMPLETE 15/02/16

[stealth80]

                                                                                     

 

 

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So, turns out I really enjoyed modding my Antec 902, but annoyingly the way my living room is set out and the fact the window is on the right hand side of the case, no one can actually see the work I did without leaning over the side of the Sofa/Desk to able to view inside it 

 

 Step up the Thermaltake Core X9 

 

 

Now Purchased :clap:

 

 

 For this I will be gutting the main components out of my sig rig:

 

 Intel i7 4790K

 Asus Maximus VII Ranger

 EVGA 970GTX SC ACX 2.0

 SoundBlaster Z

 Gskill Ripjaw X 4 x 4GB

 Samsung XP941 256GB PCIE SSD

 Corsair 620w

 Asus ROG Front Panel

 

 EK-DDC 3.2 PWM X-RES 140

 Alphacool UT60 240mm radiator

 

 

 

 For the moment everything is purely in planning phase, at this time I am considering the following:

 

 Watercooling to be Pastel Red for CPU Loop and Pastel White for the GPU Loop

 

 The following components form my "planned" watercooling shopping list:

 

 Chipset waterblock for Motherboard - EK-MOSFET ASUS M7G - Acetal+Nickel

http://www.ekwb.com/news/521/19/EK-i...-water-blocks/

 

 CPU Waterblock - EK-Supremacy EVO - Nickel (CSQ)

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ek-su...el-water-block

 

 GPU Block - Bitspower VG-NGTX970ESACX Acrylic

http://www.bitspower.com/html/produc...3453&kind2=109

 

 360mm Radiator - Alphacool 35273 NexXxoS XT60 Radiator 360 White Edition x2

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/alphacool-nexxxos-ut60-full-copper-360mm-white-special-edition Purchased

 

 Reservoir + Combo - EK-DDC 3.2 PWM X-RES 140, Water Cooling Pump (This matches the one I currently have)

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ek-dd...r-cooling-pump Purchased

 

 Monsoon White Fittings - ModMyToys 19/13mm (ID 1/2 - 3/4) Compression Fitting - Six Pack - White + Red Carbon (For the white loop)

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Mo...bon_37248.html

 

 

 

 Fans, open to advice here, I want 3x white LED for the white loop and 2x red for the red loop

 

 

 White - Enermax T.B.Vegas 120mm Single Fan White LEDs - Purchased

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120mm...ister-bearings

 

 

 Extras:

 

 White caps - Monsoon x5

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/monso...lug-g1-4-white

 

 

 Tubing - Primochill Advanced - Purchased

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...30&subcat=2579

 

 Coolant - Mayhems Pastal Red

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1l-ma...el-red-coolant

 

 Coolant - Mayhems Ice White

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1l-ma...-white-coolant

 

 Fan Controller - BitFenix Recon - White

http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/accessories/recon/

 

Additional Comment:

 

 been planning this a little more after i came up with an idea whilst playing Wildstar. Im thinking of a small section using some 3g fake grass with a small anime figurine inside the case using the 2x reservoirs as a back drop

 

http://www.artificial-grass-online.co.uk/thirsk-artific...

 

 and something along the lines of 

 

 

http://kotaku.com/5871156/the-tekken-figure-of-your-pin...

 

I've finally made my mind up on a few things, and whilst I don't have the Thermaltake case yet (delays from supplier) I have actually managed to get started.

 

I've decided to keep the RoG Front Base for the Asus Ranger Motherboard. Now as the case is going to be sprayed white, I figured I should make the front base as white as possible:

 

 

First thing I need to do was get the knob off (no puns!) what a pain in the rear this was, but eventually it came off allowing me to fully strip down the electrics from the case/cover:

 

 

Once that was stripped I went out and picked the brightest white I could find which is useable on both plastics and metal. Once the screen was masked up I got to work with the primer:

 

 

 

 

 

I've finished applying the top coat now, i'm going to let it dry over night, check for runs and hopefully remove the tape tomorrow evening, by which time I should know if the case is in stock at Scan

 

Got the RoG Front Base fully painted and re-assembled:

 

 

 

 

UPDATE

 

So today the Thermaltake case arrived and oh boy, its big!

 

 

 

 

I took a picture of it here on my desk in between an Antec 902 and a Zalman case, both are mid towers, but it does show the scale of the Core X9.

 

 

Heres a few pictures of the case before I stripped it down for painting:

 

 

 

 

Top view with cover removed and rad/fan mounts still fitted:

 

 

Motherboard tray:

 

 

PSU Area (one of two!)

 

 

Front lower and drive cages, I won't be using these in my mod unless I need 6TB in the future : )

 

 

And here is the stripped frame, when they said this was modular they weren't joking!

 

 

 

I have started painting the internal parts of the case and the front mesh, I really under estimated how much paint I would need to do this, however heres some progress:

 

Front fully painted

 

 

PSU Blank/Grill

 

 

selection of other parts:

 

 

well it's been a late one, just the 3 external panels remain to be sprayed :rock:

 

Transferred the 200mm Red Fan from my Antec 902 mod to use in the front of this one.

 

 

Here's some pics of things so far:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPDATE 15th Feb 2015

 

So I finally got around to finishing the painting today, I had the roof and side panel to paint and a few imperfections to address. So now I can say that the case is fully painted, now need to work out where I want to placed the 2x 360mm radiators and whether or not to go push or pull with the fans:

 

 

 

[JoaoPRSousa]

Updates please!!!!

[iHammmy]

Updates w/ photos

[stealth80]

haha sorry, more updates when I do more work, the log ive uploaded is as far as I have got which was today, I finished the final exterior panels. I think used around 15 tins of spray paint to get this fully painted.

 

I guess theres a slight update, ive just ordered the 2nd pump/res combo, the 2x 360mm white radiators and the EK Supremecy EVO Nikel edition

 

I'm also planning on a second partition wall in the base of the case where I can mount the 2x res/pump combos on top of and also use it to hide some cabling. I'm gonna cut the words ICED BLOOD in a decent font out of it spray it white (duh!) and illuminate the rear in red:

 

Excuse the Toddler crayon sketch:

 

[CtW]

I can't wait to see how this turn out. It looks absolutely killer so far. Boom you get a follow.

[stealth80]

Also opted for 6x Enermax Vegas LED white fans, rather than 3 red and 3 white :

 

http://www.enermax.co.uk/tb-vegas/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-U_D4WVY

[wolfgang]

Looks good so far.

[stealth80]

 

 

Thanks to Mick over at Mayhems who has kindly agreed to donate the Coolants

 

http://mayhems.co.uk/store/ice-white-1ltr.html

 

http://mayhems.co.uk/store/red-1ltr.html

 

and as an unexpected bonus: Mayhems Blitz Pro Cleaning System

http://mayhems.co.uk/store/mayhems-blitz-pro.html?sl=en

[stealth80]

Today I had some treasures arrive

 

 

 

 

 

[stealth80]

Today I got a couple of in house engineers to help with the partition. Hopefully have it end of this week/beginning of next week with the lettering machined out
 I unboxed a few things and tried a preliminary fitting of the rads and fans and I think I'm quite happy, just gotta make sure it tallies up with the partition wall.

 

I love these fans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wolfgang]

Neat looking fans you got. Look forward to more.

[stealth80]

Haha ye I totally went for looks, but to be honest the static pressure (quoted albeit) aint too bad. Its gonna be a massive step up from my 240mm rad cramped into an Antec 902 running both my cpu and gpu loop =p

 

Hopefully have the partition end of week to spray and acrylic piece on its way. Once that's here I guess I can start planning the loop and locate the res's

[Darkstar101]

Nice case for watercooling.

[stealth80]

Ye theres certainly a lot of space in there! got to buy the fittings and EK Supremecy, but that's gonna have to wait until next month as Mrs Stealth aint too happy about the treasures that arrived yesterday :rolleyes:

[stealth80]

Bit of a play on paint to give an idea of the planned loops:

 

 

Seems I cant use that end port, so I will have to rotate the upper rad and run an extra long tube. Also I didn't add that the red line will be hitting a motherboard VRM block before going to the radiator

[colinmcr]

Very nice, the paint job on the case looks the biz. Which paint did you use? As it looks to be matching the rads great.

[stealth80]

Hey thanks, the paint, Simoniz white acrylic primer followed by Simoniz Acrylic Gloss White. Took about 15 tins in total

[stealth80]

Got the partition wall back today and I think the guys did a great job! I need to take it in again tomorrow for tweak to make it fit perfect before spraying it white, but it looks pretty good. Once the acrylic arrives I can stick the centres of the B, D and O's.

 

 

Heres the trunking im going to use to hide the cables going to the Asus Rog and Fan controller

 

 

 

 

I may have to reconsider the rad positioning for the CPU loop as the D will be covered if it goes where it's planned at the moment

[stealth80]

So today I got the partition back so I've made some fixing points, cut holes for wires beneath the motherboard tray and holes for the drain lines for 2 res's, currently just painting up ready to fit. The acrylic also arrived today so I prepped that and frosted the back ready for the Red LEDs that arrive next week. Incidentally I tried 4x blue LEDs in it and I thought they looked really nice on the frosted back, shame its against the project colour scheme

[stealth80]

I did some more thinking and decided that the second 360mm radiator needs to go in the roof of the case to ensure that the text in the partition wall is visible. This left a rather large vacant area in the lower case infant of the window. So last night i stripped my sig rig and flushed the 240mm radiator, today I've been spraying the 240mm rad and the partition wall. Ill get some shots up later once its all finished.

[stealth80]

So today I got quite a bit of work done and I think it's finally starting to look like a modded pc rather than a small building site, as a plus note i think i've finished spray painting so that should please the wife!

 

So the partition is painted and fitted, but I'm waiting on the 5mm LED's to arrive before I fit the acrylic and the inside of the B,D and O's from the text. I also painted and added my 240mm radiator to lower of the case to fill the void that was left from moving the rad to the ceiling:

 

 

 

As I said I've also moved the other 360mm rad to the ceiling, if it was left in the lower section it would obscure half of the text on the partition wall. Now both 360mm rads are in the roof!

 

 

As i got the partition wall in I figured I may aswell go ahead and sort out the locations of the two EK Pump/Res combos. I de-pinned the PWM and Molex connectors and made small holes on top of the partition allowing the wires to be hidden. That involved dropping the bottom from one of the res's to switch the wires to the reverse side. Now its all done, and i really like the look so far. The fittings on the left side Res will be swapped to the white ones i detailed in my initial parts list once i win the lottery to pay for everything :roll eyes:

 

 

 

 

 

[stealth80]

I decided that i could route one of the tubes through the partition wall, down from the right side res and out of the wall next to the "D" on BLOOD and into a 90 degree fitting on the 240mm radiator, this of course required me to repaint the partition, wife no happy !

[stealth80]

Bit more work done tonight, got the letters stuck to the acrylic for the back drop, but can't attach the back drop to the partition wall until the LEDs arrive which appear to have been delayed :wall bash:

 

So all i got for the moment is an example of the routing from the res to the 240mm radiator, need to order more 90 degrees, compression and a couple of 45 degree fittings and the 16/10 primochill.

 

 

 

[stealth80]

I decided to drop the motherboard and PSU in the case tonight as a temporary fit just to see what extra cables I'm gonna need and basically to see how the fans look, and I love them lol

 

I decided to drop the motherboard and PSU in the case tonight as a temporary fit just to see what extra cables I'm gonna need and basically to see how the fans look, and I love them lol

 

 

 

For a start i need a braided 8 pin tax extender, cable is just long enough!

 

 

 

 

[enRodjavel]

Lookign good, really love those Enermax fans =D

 

And both 360mmRADs ibn the roof look sick, really beast.